Well, as an Oregonian, ya gotta remember, technically black folk weren’t even allowed to live in the state longer than a year. I mean you could but a public flogging was involved.

I mean, Portland plays the progressive game pretty well but as a white dude, it often seems like it’s more just virtue signaling than…

Wow! That’s some serious white fragility on display there. I’m surprised it hasn’t devolved into froth-mouthed yelling of racial slurs.

And again I ask of the media... where’s the follow up?

Lewis defended himself by saying it was unfortunate that his comment about shooting black people “is being colored as a racial thing.”

“Hardesty simply read every officer’s account of Lewis’ racist joke.”

Jo Ann Hardesty is the best thing to happen to Portland! She’s been around forever, and I’m so glad she’s getting the recognition she deserves. 

Siberia doesn’t have long stretches of extreme hot days in summer (unless I’m mistaken). The rails have to be designed to handle everything from the hottest to the coldest. Expansion and contraction is tested by the extremes. Chicago is well known for their extreme winters and extreme heat waves. Even here in Toronto…

I expect the Russians would have similar sorts of trouble in high heat. An average Siberian summer day is in the 60-70F range. Chicago routinely gets 90F+ midsummer days.

In Siberia, kerosene road burns you!

Actually came here hoping to find some technical explanation of this. Here in Montana everyone’s just like “yeah? And?” 

They must be using a different type of steel or rail configuration.  They obviously have experience with the cold.  In WW2, the Russian tanks had no cold weather issues...the German tanks would seize if they shut of the engine.

“I didn’t want to offend anybody...”

Totally. Never forget that Obama had the audacity to disembark from Marine 1 and salute while holding a coffee. Truly he is history’s greatest monster. 

A (maybe) true Joe Paterno story:

No, I really hate their fans. 

“Players were talking amongst each other but everybody was like: ‘I’m not going to that.’”

*Hamberdler (sorry)

Seeing the Hamburgler serve up cold burgers hard-as-fuck french fries must have been an extra sense of vindication for them.

I don’t think we should comment until we see the WHOLE game.

Damn, look at all those poor oppressed victims in that picture.